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( Model.) V H I S. P. CLO-USER.

. OAR REPLACING AND DERAILING DEVICE. No. 439,291. Patented Oct. 28, 1,890.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

SAMUEL r. CLOUSER, or BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO FRANKLIN J. WALL, on

NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAR REPLACING AND DERAILING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,291, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed March 5, 1890. Serial No. 342,802. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. CLoUsER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Replacing and Derailing Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable to others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents an inverted perspective view of my improved tool; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, the tool beinginverted Fig. 3, a transverse sectional view of the same,

taken through the depending lugs. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view showing its application to a rail when used for replacing cars; Fig. 5, a detail perspective view showing its application as a car-derailer.

z 5 The object of the invention is to produce a exceedingly-simple tool that maybe employed to replace either derailed street-cars or to derail cars already upon the rails, as the exigencies of the case may require, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

The invention also has for its object to provide said tools with means for shaking stovegrates, and also with means for removing broken shoes from the hoofs of the car-horses,

3 5 as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In the annexed drawings, a designates a slightly-curved bar of steel, which is reduced to an edge at its rear end, as at b, whereby it may be employed to remove loose or broken o shoes from the boots of the car-horses in case the shoes become broken while making a trip. This bar, near its forward end, is provided with laterally-projecting enlargements or wings a a, formed upon opposite sides of 5 the said bar, the rear shoulders to" of these wings being rounded oif and tapered into the main bar, as shown. Depending from the lower outer longitudinal edges of these wings are lugs (Z (Z, which are rounded or curved on their inner or adjacent faces, as shown. Lon 5o gitudinal grooves e c are formed in the upper sides of the wings at the point where they join the main bar, as shown.

I To adapt the device to shaking stovegrates, I form on its forward end a rounded extension 0, which may be readily used for that purpose.

Fig. 4 shows the application of the device when used for replacing a derailed car. In this position the depending lugs or wings cl d embrace the flange of the rail, and the rear endof the device rests upon the ground outside of the rail, the convex side of the bar being up. The lugs prevent the bar from moving forward when the car-wheels strike it by binding or clutching the rail-flange. The flanges of the wheels strike the inner edge of the bar, and the wheels pass up on top of the same. The wheels pass along the bar until their flanges strike against the right-hand wing a, by which they are thrown upon the track, the curved shoulder a" of the said wing serving to effectually accomplish this movement.

In Fig. 5 the application of the device as a car-derailer is shown. When thus used to derail cars, the device is laid upon the top of the rail with the convex side up and the depending lugs embracing the flange of the rail, as shown in full lines in this figure. When the wheel passes upon the bar and its flange strikes against the rounded shoulder a" of the inner wing at, the bar will swing around to the position shown in dotted lines in this figure, in which position its rear end rests upon the road-bed-inside of the rail, and the lugs cl clamp or clutch the flanges of the rail. The bar is caused to swing around in this manner bythe action of car-horses in endeavoring to draw the car toward the side of. the track where derailment is to take place. This pivotal or swinging movement of the bar is permitted and facilitated by the rounded inner faces of the depending lugs cl d, which bear against the sides of the rail-flange. 5 Only one of these devices is necessary to derail or replace a car, and therefore only one need be carried by each car. The provision of the stove-grate shaker and the brokenshoe remover renders the device still further useful.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim herein as new is as follows:

1. A car replacing and derailing tool consisting of a bar provided at or near its forward end with lateral wings a, these wings being provided with depending wings orlugs cl, the inner or adjacent faces of these lugs being rounded, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A car replacing and derailing tool consisting of a bar provided at its forward end with lateral wings a, the rear shoulders of these wings being rounded off, as at a the said wings being provided with depending embracing-lugs d, the inner faces of these lugs being rounded, as set forth.

3. A car replacing and derailing device con sisting of a curved bar a, reduced to an edge at its rear end, and provided near its forward end with lateral wings a, and a forwardlyprojecting finger c, the said wings a being provided with depending lugs d, having their inner faces rounded, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL F. OLOUSER.

Witnesses:

C. D.'DAVIS, FRANK O. GIBSON. 

